Final Portfolio

 

Animation Project

 The final project for this class is an animation done in Photoshop. I took a ~15 second long video of my dog running away and then back towards me. Then I split the video into layers using photoshop and manually drew her in each frame. Admittedly, my hand drawing is not particularly good. My hands shake from medication I have to take and it makes drawing both difficult and makes my hands fatigue very quickly, meaning the project simply took me a lot of hours. Taking all of this into consideration I’m really pleased with my final product. I think the animation itself is very smooth and the drawings of the dog ended up being cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIoyx16Bgd4&feature=youtu.be

Autoscopy Project

 The Autoscopy project asked us to use Adobe Photoshop to produce some sort of distortion on our self image into a self portrait. This prospect was incredibly exciting to me and I immediately knew what I wanted to do. I used makeup, lighting, and photoshopped on hair to transform myself into the protagonist of my book ‘Idol’, Ivory. I made my eyes very intensely blue, took pink hair off of a model, and photoshopped on intense makeup and higher cheekbones to make myself look like her. We were asked to export the picture at a compression 100, 75, 50, 25, and 0%. Here I have the picture at compressions 100, 50, and 0%. Unfortunately the different compressions did not dramatically change my picture. However, I think I completed the overall objective of the project very well and I am very pleased with my final product. 

Multiplicity Project

 The multiplicity project had us using Adobe Photoshop to create a scene with multiple characters using only ourselves. For my picture I wanted to highlight what a day in the life of a chronically ill person is like. I took pictures of myself sleeping, taking medication, putting on my walking boot, doing physical therapy, and setting up and doing an infusion I have to get every day to keep my hydration up. I’m really pleased with how this project turned out. Working in Photoshop has been really fun especially because I have previous experience in it and was able to spend more time just enjoying the process. I think I could’ve done a better job not making the picture seem less crowded, however capturing what it feels like to do all these things in a small dorm room was one of the goals of the project and in my opinion doing it in any other space would have made it feel less authentic.

Black and White to Color Project

 For this project I used Adobe Photoshop to re-color a black and white photo three ways using color palettes created in Adobe Color. I used analogous shades of pink, complementary shades of pink and green, and a triad of pink blue and yellow as my color palettes. I ended up using the same selfie as my poster project because I wanted to redeem the selfie and prove to myself that I could create a good project using the same base that had failed previously. My favorite of the three is probably the pink and green complementary palette because I feel like it represents me as a person. Pink is my favorite color and has been for my whole life. Green is the color that represents both of my major chronic illnesses on awareness ribbons. I have often joked that my autobiography would be called ‘my life in shades of pink and green’ because of the significance the colors have held in my life.